What sayings have you heard your parents or grandparents use as disciplinary methods?

Question

I answered a question earlier that made me think about this. I remember so many things that used to scare the daylights out of us when we were kids but are so humorous now.

One of my grandmothers favorites was
"I am going to knock 9 kinds of fire out of you"

I look back on that and laugh, my grandmother never laid a hand on any of us, but I remember when she got mad enough to say that, we were worried, lol

Answer 1

My Papa used to tell my brother when he got hurt doing something he shouldn't have been doing..... "that'll learn ya, dern ya"

LOL

Answer 2

those grew to become into around while i grew to become right into a boy, and that i nevertheless use maximum of them: a million) sounds like this is gonna arise a cloud (gonna rain) 2) i'm fuller that a tick at a blood financial organisation 3) he's so low down, he has to attain as much as the touch backside. 4) he's nervouser than an prolonged tailed cat in a room complete of rocking chairs 5) that could gag a buzzard on a gut wagon 6) have been given my tongue twisted around my eye enamel and could no longer see a be conscious i grew to become into asserting. 7) i'm going to be gon til the cows come abode 8) do no longer that basically crack yer yaller (egg yolk) 9) So obdurate you ought to no longer knock him off a fence in a windstorm 10) it particularly is crookeder than a dogs's hind leg 11) sounds like she's been beat with an unpleasant stick 12) he's so skinny, if he stood sideways, he does not even solid a shadow 13) He ain't even knee intense to a grasshopper 14) ...basically between you and me and the fencepost 15) good Lord keen, and the creek do no longer upward push Papaw

Answer 3

We usually just got the old guilt trip:

"You know better than that!" (with a stern look)!

We also got threatened with the old reliable:

"Just wait until your Dad gets home!" .... eeeeeeeee!

Answer 4

Grandpa used to say "Come here you little s.o.b., I'm gonna beat the livin' tarnation out of you, just as soon as I get my hands on yas!!!"

Answer 5

When our mother said "If you don't stop doing that, Dad will use his belt when he gets home". As this was no idle threat, we had tested that theory before, we became good little boys......

Answer 6

my grandparents spoke polish so that probably saved me from some childhood scarring but my parents used the old, "don't make me pull over" and "wait till your father gets home". she only pulled over once. and boy was it memorable...

Answer 7

I heard "I'm going to tie a knot in your butt!"
And "I'm going to put a screwdriver to your bellybutton so your butt will fall off"

Answer 8

My gram used to call me an imp of satan :)

Answer 9

When my grandma gets mad, she says, "Well, son of a pup!!"

Answer 10

"This is going to hurt me more than it hurts you."
I understand this now, but didn't get it as a child.